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Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

> IIRC, values lower than 1.0 didn't work on Windows.  Does anyone
> remember any details?  (There should probably be a comment in the
> source to explain the purpose.)

Yes to the comment.

If this matters, there should probably be a runtime test to determine
the timing resolution, or a primitive to report it.  I don't know
off-hand what's possible.  Perhaps better, maybe the Windows/DOS
primitive could round up non-zero timeouts to a minimum of 1.0?